ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,728, issued on March 18, was assigned to Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan) and Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Adhesive coating device, adhesive coating method, and rotor manufacturing method" was invented by Yuji Ishikawa (Mie-gun, Japan), Hiroyuki Sano (Mie-gun, Japan) and Yoshihiro Igarashi (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive coating device for coating an inner wall surface of a workpiece provided with holes with an adhesive. A control device automatically executes an operation of applying the adhesive, the operation including positioning o...